Preppers Shop UK, the nation's "number one preppers ... out bags" (essentially goodie bags packed with survival tools), gas masks, biohazard suits, decontamination apparel and "virus control ...

A quad-demic has hit the UK in the wake of warnings that Brits should consider donning masks once more, with four viruses running amok just weeks after after a top official issued a Covid-era warning.

Now put your books down…and get your gas masks out. Quietly. Now take them carefully out of their boxes - no, no, Isobel, don't drag at it…you show her how to do it, Margaret, will you.

A sign hanging above the doors to the gas chamber reads, "Even the brave cry here." A dozen at a time, Marines are ushered into a small, dark, brick room. A thick haze of o-Chlorobenzylidene ...